index thermometer

index thermometer

[′in‚deks thər′mäm·əd·ər]

(engineering)

A thermometer in which steel index particles are carried by mercury in the capillary and adhere to the capillary wall in the high and low positions, thus indicating minimum and maximum inertial scales.

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